Cass Johnson Quotes (19 Quotes)

I hope they'll be willing to do that. But knowing how far apart they are, I would not be surprised to see another round or two.

This does not solve the problem it only pushes the danger from China further off.

The developing world must insist that China's growth continues to be restrained.

I think the expectation is that they will not make much progress today and the US (team) will go home this afternoon.

So now we will begin filing new safeguard petitions next week on additional categories,

It looks like this is a very good deal for the U.S. textile industry, ... Our objectives were tight limits on our sensitive categories and expanded product coverage. The U.S. government achieved both of those results.

The two sides remain far apart. Before now, an agreement was a definite possibility, but China showed no flexibility.

Unless something is done about China in the Doha round, the developing world will lose tens of billions of dollars in exports.

At this round, China returned to its position of delay and no compromise by insisting on terms for a agreement that were impossible for the U. S. government to accept and that would have been extremely damaging to the U. S. industry and its workers.

For the first time, China began to negotiate constructively, but it still has a significant way to go before we can reach a deal that the industry can support.

People thought there was a good chance of an agreement coming out of these meetings but it's clear the Chinese government was not interested in moving off its position -- and neither was the U. S. government,

China also insisted that the U. S. forswear the right to invoke safeguard actions for any other products outside the agreement. That's a deal-killer right there.

The Chinese threat is real. We will continue to file and re-file textile-safeguard petitions until China is willing to come to the table and negotiate.

It sends the message that this is not a dying industry.

According to our information over the life of the agreement, China will receive only a minimal increase -- 3.8 percent -- in market access in the 14 largest and most sensitive textile apparel categories as compared to the use of the safeguard.

There was no agreement. The two sides were too far apart on all the major issues.

We are disappointed that the Chinese government is not yet willing to negotiate seriously to resolve the dispute over textiles.

To come to an agreement, the Chinese government will have to be willing to move considerably,

By using its currency as an economic weapon and by pouring billions of dollars of illegal subsidies into its textile sector, the Chinese government has effectively declared war on U.S. textile producers.